β-mannosidase deficiency in two mentally retarded girls with intractable seizures

The Mentally Retarded

The crucial factor involved in habilitating the mentally retarded, or other individuals, for produc­ tive employment is not, as is often erroneously as­ sumed, the decision concerning the vocation that the client may succeed in, but the position that is taken concerning this unique person. In this re­ gard, an analysis of the habilitation process indicates that at each decision-making point a p...

The Mentally Retarded Patient

J. B. Lippincott Co. London: Pitman Medical Publishing (Jo. Pp. 203. 32s. The number of useful texts on mental deficiency is small, especially those by psychologists, so that a new volume written by the chief clinical psychologist of the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, New York, is opened with interest. The author, Harold Michal-Smith, draws a clear picture of the inadequacy of the social se...

The Mentally Retarded Child

, This is a review of various Russian investigations concerning the clinical afl pathopsychological characteristics of the brain-damaged child. The Russians do A0 accept as mentally retarded those unsuccessful children who are generally found 1,1 schools for the educationally subnormal. Most of these are either "pedagogical'5 neglected" or have "partial or peripheral difficulties", e.g. defecti...

Mentally Retarded Criminal Defendants

Branched-chain Amino Acids in Two Mentally Retarded Sibs

There is increasing interest in the importance of pyridoxine in brain disorders of childhood. Convulsions have occurred in infants receiving a pyridoxine (vitamin B6) deficient diet (Coursin, 1955), and Bessey, Adam, and Hansen (1957) have shown that some infants have a greater requirement than others for this vitamin. In the deficiency state, small amounts of vitamin B6 stop the convulsions, b...